Zompist Bboard Again

So due to the structure of the language I have decided not to start with purely nominal morphology, rather I'm gonna start with the most central part of the morphology, noun-classes, and move onto verbal morphology, and only then move onto what little there is in terms of nominal morphology. Before ...

Some notes on distribution and frequency. In terms of distribution, there are some rather strict restrictions, plus some fairly strong tendencies in the language. The most notable ones are that, mainly as a result of the prevalences of noun and person marking prefixes, the set of permissible word-in...

So, I'm gonna repost the stuff I've posted on the CBB on my current a priori conlang Asta, full name ‘astə‘ə ‘iya "this language". I'll be mostly reposting from that board, though with some rearrangement of posts into a more ordered arrangement. We'll start with the phonology, which many o...

This doesn't look good for May, but one thing you have to hand her, not looking good but still being PM is her signature move. Surely it looks worse for the hard brexiters? It looks like they hyperfocused on getting that 15% of the party members to write to the 1922 committee, and not much on comin...

I can't recall such languages off the top of my head, but I have some near examples. Rotinese reportedly only permits /k/ and /s/, both of which apparently by a process of suffixation, and there might be other ones in the Austronesian family. Also Ancient Greek had /s n r/ only in the coda, so I can...

mimics England... lots of ritual and pomp and circumcisions). Actually circumsion is not routine in the UK like it is in America, here it's only done if you're Jewish, Muslim, or occasionally for genuine medical reasons (in my case phimosis). Heh. At least someone read that carefully! Is Frisland a...

Ok, I just saw a claim on Twitter that an SNP MP has said that if Corbyn doesn't introduce a motion of no confidence until the end of today, "other parties" will. That takes the whole thing to the next level, I guess. People aren't going to like that - one of the rhetorical devices of the...

The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary is online, for those of us who might want to make a Austronesian conlang someday (like me).

The thing which is most depressing to me is when the BBC goes and does vox pop and of course there's so many ignorant pro-Brexit views, because few people actually pay attention to what's going on in politics at the time, and many of those who pay attention to the news get it through the rampantly p...

I'm uncertain whether Frisland would join. I'm currently thinking that Frisland reappears sometime in the 19902/2000s, and by that point it's probably a little too late. Firstly you have the language barrier to be overcome, which will take years, even decades perhaps, and alongside this you have nea...

The text on the webpage is a little broken on the punctuation front.

At this point I feel like I'm not so much gunning for reform of the system, because the amount of baggage that has built up over the years is still kind of hilarious even in these completely depressing times, but rather that some weird-minded irredentist would try and resurrect the old kingdom of No...

I had half a mind to do so with Asta, but given I've already missed one day due to planned absence, and I know I have other planned absences, I probably won't bother.

I wouldn't change test questions on the basis of Russian, because everyone agrees that Russian is at best marginally SAE.

First off, the laws of party systems mean that, in general, there can't be third parties in simple plurality electoral systems. The survival of the Liberals is a freak of history, replicated in very few SP countries around the world. The Liberals survived their replacement by Labour for basically t...

If you dislocated the possessor though, would you use the dative still, something like John, je l'ai fermé les mains?

Hmmm, while running through Swedish, I noticed that German couldn't have gotten 100 since the two possession questions contradict each other: German only ever uses dative possessors in reference to inalienable objects, same as in French for instance. ( Ich wasche mir die Hände / Je me lave les main...

By "Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar," do glottal stop counts as phoneme that violates that? Yes, because they're very uncommon in SAE, and /h/ is similar, if slightl...

Asta got 51.5 on phonology, which seems a little strange to me, and 36 on grammar, which seems more reasonable. (Oh look I did what Vlürch did, sorry about that).

Again thanks for making this!

Is it me or has this deal basically managed to be just as much of a unifier of everyone's ire as Chequers?

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:45 amI swear Brits should be glad the US exists, because they are the only thing keeping you from being the stupidest people on Earth.

Bold of you to assume we haven't known that for years.